UPCOMING SCREENINGS + EVENTS
Freestyle Friday – Online – Friday November 3, 2-3:15pm EST/11-12:15pm PST
We invite you to join the Reality Poets and film team on Zoom this FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3rd to ask all your burning questions during our Freestyle Friday! tinyurl.com/realitypoets
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival – Middlebury, VT – August 24th, 2023 – AWARD WINNER ⭐️ Hernandez/Bayliss Prize For Triumph Of The Human Spirit
DCTV Firehouse Cinema – New York City, NY – September 29th through October 5th, 2023
Friday, September 29 – Poetry, Art, and Animation: A conversation with directors Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides and concept artist/animator Guillermo Mena, Q&A moderated by Dara Messinger.
Saturday, September 30 – Collaborative Filmmaking: A conversation with directors Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides, Reality Poet/co-producer Peter Yearwood and Reality Poet/OPEN DOORS director/musician Vincent Pierce and OPEN DOORS Design Team members/Reality Poets LeVar Lawrence and Alhassan “El” Abdulfattaah. Q&A moderated by Rosemary McDonnell-Horita.
Sunday, October 1 – Nursing Home Lives Matter, Community Organizing, and Building Power: A conversation with OPEN DOORS director, Nursing Home Lives Matter founder/Reality Poet Vincent Pierce, co-producer/Reality Poet Peter Yearwood, nurse George Bowman, former OPEN DOORS director/FIRE producer Jennilie Brewster, and Roosevelt Island community member Julia Ferguson. Q&A moderated by Rosemary McDonnell-Horita.
Monday, October 2 – Long-term Care Reform: A conversation about the nursing home staffing crisis, how it directly relates to the violation of resident rights and what to do about it. Featuring Ramon Cruz aka “King Tito Love”, Francene Benjamin, George Bowman, Stephanie Patton, Beth Finkel - State Director AARP (TBD), and Claudette Royal - Head of Ombudsman Program. Q&A moderated by Richard Mollot, Executive Director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition.
Wednesday, October 4 – Gun Violence Prevention: A conversation with Reality Poets and gun violence survivors Vincent Pierce, LeVar Lawrence, Alhassan “El” Abdulfattaah and Ramon Cruz aka “King Tito Love.” Q&A moderated by Saadiq Anderson-Bey, LSW.
BFI London Film Festival – London, England – October 14, 2023 + October 15, 2023
GlobeDocs Film Festival – Online – October 25th through 31st, 2023
POV Broadcast + Streaming Premiere – October 30th, 2023
National Consumer Voice for Long-Term Care 47th Annual Conference: Amplify Your Advocacy – Resident Empowerment – November 1, 2023
Consumer Voice's Annual Conference educates and empowers long-term care consumers and consumer advocates. The conference covers long-term care issues, including current trends, best practices, advocacy opportunities, and new research. Attendees have the opportunity to learn, network, and exchange ideas with advocates from all over the country.The conference will be live streamed and recorded and available on registrants for 90 days following Nov. 1. Vincent Pierce, Peter Yearwood, Andres “Jay” Molina, Jennilie Brewster, Alex Eshelman and Mikko Cook will speak on a panel about resident empowerment.
DOC NYC Pro – Panel discussion: Collaborative Filmmaking, Accessibility & Editing – November 12, 2023
Accessibility is key to inclusive storytelling. In this panel, we’ll explore how to work in collaboration with film participants throughout the editing process, how to incorporate feedback, and how to center accessibility as a cornerstone throughout. FIRE co-director/producer Alexis Neophytides, director/producer Set Hernandez (Unseen) and protagonist/co-writer Pedro (Unseen) discuss their challenges with moderator Nefertiti Matos Olivares (Descriptive Video Works) and some of the ingenious solutions that arose during their own collaborative filmmaking processes.
Nursing Home Lives Matter GALA – Roosevelt Island, NYC – November 29th, 5pm
Featuring performances by the Reality Poets and our community, join us for an evening of poetry, mingling, and celebration as we look to the future of #NursingHomeLivesMatter!
PAST SCREENINGS + EVENTS
BlackStar Film Festival (World Premiere) – Philadelphia, PA – August 5th, 2023 – JURY AWARD WINNER ⭐️ Best Feature Documentary
Jury Comment: “The feature documentary jury-award winning film stands strong as an investigative report with its concise clarity and unique perspective, yet it’s also stylized beautifully as a tapestry that weaves the characters together. With its brilliant approach, the jury wishes to recognize the many challenges these filmmakers faced in these conditions during this time period, yet made a film with elevated sound design, compelling cinematography, and phenomenal characters.”
STREAMING NOW on POV/PBS!!!
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Superfest Disability Film Festival – San Francisco, CA + Online – October 19th through 22nd, 2023 – AWARD WINNER ⭐️ Directors’ Choice Award
The Roxie – San Francisco, CA – October 23, 2023
Vidiots – Los Angeles, CA – October 25, 2023